Frances E. Jensen, MD, FACP

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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Chair, Department of Neurology
  • Arthur Knight Asbury, M.D. Professor in Neurology

My education and training

  • Medical School: NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
  • Residency: Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center - Chestnut Hill
  • Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Jensen is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Gourmaud, S*, Shou, H, Irwin, D, Sansalone, K, Jacobs, L, Lucas, T, Davis, K, Jensen FE, Talos, D. Alzheimer-like amyloid and tau pathology associated with cognitive deficit in temporal lobe epilepsy , Brain, 143((1)): 2020,191-209

Sun, H, Takesian, AE, Wang, TT, Lippman-Bell, JJ, Hensch, TK, and Jensen, FE. Early seizures prematurely unsilence auditory synapses to disrupt thalamocortical critical period plasticity. , Cell Reports , 23(9): 2018,2533-2540

Talos DM, Jacobs LM, Gourmaud S, Coto CA, Sun H, Lim KC, Lucas TH, Davis KA, Martinez, Lage M, Jensen FE Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 and 2 in human temporal lobe epilepsy , Ann Neurol., 83(2): 2018,311-327

Dzhala, VL, Talos, DM, Sdrulla, DA, Brumback, AC, Mathews, GC, Benk, TA, Delpire, EJ, Jensen, FE, Staley, KJ NKCC1 transporter facilitates seizures in the developing brain. , Nat Med , 11: 2005,1207-1213,

Rakhade, S, Jensen, FE Epileptogenesis in the Immature Brain: Emerging Mechanisms. , Nature Rev Neurol , 5(7): 2009,380-91,

Sun, H*, Kosaras, B, Klein, P, Jensen, FE Mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 activation negatively regulates Polo-like kinase 2-mediated homeostatic compensation following neonatal seizures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. , Proc Nat Acad Sci (PNAS), 110(13): 2013,5199-204

Sengupta Soma, Weeraratne Shyamal Dilhan, Sun Hongyu, Phallen Jillian, Rallapalli Sundari K, Teider Natalia, Kosaras Bela, Amani Vladimir, Pierre-Francois Jessica, Tang Yujie, Nguyen Brian, Yu Furong, Schubert Simone, Balansay Brianna, Mathios Dimitris, Lechpammer Mirna, Archer Tenley C, Tran Phuoc, Reimer Richard J, Cook James M, Lim Michael, Jensen Frances E, Pomeroy Scott L, Cho Yoon-Jae α5-GABAA receptors negatively regulate MYC-amplified medulloblastoma growth. , Acta neuropathologica, 127(4): 2013,593-603

Frances E. Jensen with Amy Ellis Nutt The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults , Harper Collins: 2015